A rousing
horror/sci-fi adventure that unites two of the most influential figures
of the early twentieth century: the great magician Harry Houdini and the renowned horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.
It’s 1924, an era of emerging technology, but also of spiritualism and
magic. Harry Houdini, the great conjurer and mystifier, well known as a psychic debunker, is hired by the obnoxiously wealthy Caswell Bullock
to put together a team to investigate a purportedly haunted mansion
Bullock owns in the hill country of western Massachusetts. Meanwhile,
horror writer H.P. Lovecraft is down on his luck and struggling to pay
the hospital bills for treatment of his wife, Sonia, who is seriously
ill.
Houdini drafts the reluctant Lovecraft to join his team as his “Ghost
Writer,” to chronicle the magician's adventures in the paranormal. There is little love between the two vastly different men who come to
have entirely opposing views of the happenings in the strange mansion.
But their investigation triggers events that cause the team to become
trapped in the mansion, and its members soon find themselves under
attack by deadly invisible forces. Houdini, the professional skeptic, and
Lovecraft, the believer, become a 1920's version of Scully and Mulder,
and their contrasting natures and styles form the personal backdrop to
an adventure that could cost the lives of their team as well as their own. Lovecraft's research ultimately uncovers the truth of the place, and
it's no mere ghost story. But can Lovecraft, the believer, convince the skeptical Houdini of the real danger before they are all destroyed?
